It is the winter of 1315, but it is not the frigid winds that keep every royal, noble, merchant, and peasant alike locked up inside of their homes. It is a much colder wind that is sweeping through - the winds of change.

Once upon a time, the kingdom of Hyrule thrived under the fair sovereignty of the Harkinian royal family - the crown prince Sheik, and his parents Link and Zelda. Its people more often than not died of natural causes, starvation and conflict a rarity, the surname 'Dragmire' nothing more than a horrible, far-from-cherished memory.

All of this was to change, however, on the eve of a peasant girl's fifteenth birthday. One whom Sheik dearly despised, but would ultimately become his only chance for survival. Racing down staircases, hugging walls, nearly out of breath in a place that he should have felt at ease in, Sheik is the sole royal survivor of a catastrophe which left Hyrule's monarchy in shards.

An entirely unfamiliar scenario he would have never expected to unfold.